Celebrate Black-owned restaurants in Boston and beyond
Celebrate Black-owned restaurants in Boston and beyond This month, we celebrate Juneteenth. The Boston Black Hospitality Coalition has named June Boston Black Restaurant Month. Roxbury Restaurant Week takes place June 13-19. And Black Restaurant Week Northeastruns through June 13. All signs point to June as a time to glory in the excellence of Black-owned businesses […]
How New England’s First Black-Owned Jazz Club Plans To Keep The Music Going
A sketch of Joseph L. “Wally” Walcott the founder of Wally’s Cafe | MATTHEW WEST/BOSTON HERALD/GETTY IMAGES How New England’s First Black-Owned Jazz Club Plans To Keep The Music Going Since 1947, Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club has been a beacon for jazz legends and students alike. Amid the cookie-cutter brownstones on Mass Ave in Boston’s […]
The New York City Jazz Record
The New York City Jazz Record Coverage in The New York City Jazz Record The New York City Jazz Record: Can you tell me a little about those early days at Wally’s? Larry Roland: That was my school, man. We played bebop—no ballads—every night from 9 pm to 2 am. We had Roy Hargrove, Antonio […]
An Oral History of Wally’s Café
Trumpeter Jason Palmer playing to a packed house. / Photo by Tom Herde/The Boston Globe/Getty Images An Oral History of Wally’s Café Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon. All the greats came to Wally’s in the South End. Now, nearly 75 years after the birth of the legendary nightspot, the people who lived it retell […]
Frank Poindexter Of Wally’s Café On The Future Of Live Music Venues After Coronavirus
Frank Poindexter Of Wally’s Café On The Future Of Live Music Venues After Coronavirus Although public health experts and policymakers in Massachusetts generally agree about the need to close places like music venues and nightclubs during the coronavirus pandemic, the question remains: What will happen to important community gathering places in the long term? To […]
Whenever clubs do reopen, the city’s live music scene won’t be the same
Elynor L. Walcott and her sons (from left) Paul, Lloyd, and Frank Poindexter outside their family-owned South End jazz club, Wally’s Cafe, which had hosted shows nightly before the coronavirus pandemic hit. LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF Whenever clubs do reopen, the city’s live music scene won’t be the same On just about any given night, Frank […]
A historic South End jazz club has raised more than $35,000 for an ambitious new plan during the pandemic
Yaovi Ayeh of Boston, listened to the Christian Conti Quartet at Wally’s Cafe in Boston. –Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe A historic South End jazz club has raised more than $35,000 for an ambitious new plan during the pandemic Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club not only wants to keep its business afloat, it wants to […]
Fundraiser for historic Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club surpasses goal in a week
A large part of Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club on Mass. Ave. is that the cafe provides a space for professional and student musicians a stage to perfect their craft. GARY HIGGINS / BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL Fundraiser for historic Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club surpasses goal in a week For years, Frank Poindexter has had a dream […]
